My own Part VII on a SSN New Blood

There's been a lot of talk about the part 7 mask lately with Mario's new Red 7's coming out, so here's my favorite that I've done, although I may some day get a Red 7 and paint that too.

My personal Ultimate III

I was bored and made some tiny adjustments recently in my Ultimate III to make it more accurate, mostly grinding away at the inside corners of the eye holes, so I figured I'd post this up for all the world to see. You will of course notice there are tiny differences, like lens distortion making the middle appear wider and some color dissimilarity, but these are my camera's fault. In person its almost indistinguishable from my reference photos. I also do the chevron split on all of the masks, although it doesn't show up well in pics. Every time I do a mask I learn something new about it, and the part 3 with all its complexities has been very, very instructive.

Scary Man

Sculpted by Jigsaw, painted by me

Coming Soon... Ultimate V Dream Scene

 Hi blogwatchers,

Fairly soon I'll be starting this one, an attempt to paint a near-perfect recreation of the mask used in parts 3, 4, and 5, as it appears in Tommy's hallucination in part 5. This will be the sequel to my Ultimate III and many of the same techniques as well as the same base coat will be used for this one, as well as a little inside info on how the movie masks were done...

Because of the lack of high-quality photos of the original mask, I'll be using a combination of photos and screen caps to try to recreate every scratch as exactly as possible. No easy task, mostly because Tom Savini and his FX crew beat the hell out of it during pre-production on part 4, leaving almost no square millimeter of the mask undamaged. The mask will be weathered in the same sequence as the original, so the Savini damage will be ON the clear coat rather than underneath it... its all about the little things. :)

When the prototype is finished I will be offering these, you can PM me on Nightowl, Frightstuff or mm.net if interested, or email me.

My Hangman paintup

Finished today, all hand-painted... no airbrushing involved, which I think lends to greater realism. Some of the more subtle details aren't apparent in the photos, but you get the idea. Thanks for looking :)

Crazy Fucker for sale

$90 shipped in the US or best offer.

"Ultimate" New Blood

This may be my best hock paint job so far. Its about six hours worth of layering up paint trying to capture every subtle detail of the screen used mask. I think I mostly succeeded, very happy with the results. I hesistate to call it "Ultimate 7" because Mario Kirner's fantastic Black Se7en has a shape advantage that is very difficult to replicate perfectly, but I do believe this is the most accurate paint job on a part 7 that I've ever seen or done. To really appreciate the tiny details, please click on photo and zoom in. Thanks for looking!

Shower Scene II

Finished up another Shower Scene, here he is...

On Location: Part 2 (New Preston & Kent, CT)

Went out to see the part 2 filming location first hand yesterday, and what a beautiful area! Gorgeous homes, hilly terrain, and lots of money in that area-- one house even had its own waterfall right in the center of town. A bit of a rich New Yorker's paradise. I stopped at New Preston first and took a photo from where the phone booth stood in 1980, note that most of the same buildings are still standing, one in the back there even the same color thirty years later:

New Preston only has one major road, which is flanked by antique stores. This is the road Max drove his tow truck ("ASSHOLE THIS IS MY TRUCK"), and he turned left at the town hall seen at the top of the hill.

After New Preston I stumbled onto the road they drive up in Jeff's pickup in the following scene, which is at the intersection of 341 and 45 in Warren, CT.

Thanks to information from Campblood.net I found the incredibly remote and isolated lake where the bulk of part 2 was filmed, its called North Spectacle Pond and its a private pond in Kent only accessible by a maze of dirt roads that wind through all these woods. There is a boy's camp there (Kenmont), but it was not the camp they filmed at, I didn't have good enough info to find the real site, but I'm guessing it was down one of the many roads marked "no tresspassing." I did manage to get one shot of the pond:

I think the camp they filmed at was off the left edge of the photo. Next time... I will find it...